Madeleine Parent 🇨🇦

block twenty-five for 150 Canadian Women is called Road to Oklahoma and is dedicated to Madeleine Parent

Melissa's block 25

dianne's block 25

twenty-five weeks done and 125 to go, give or take six 

light riders

 

Quicksilver by Callie Hart

lots to say...

whaddya do when you have so much to say

 but only 2 hands to hold the signs?

sunday funnies - except they're not...

actually,  not even a little bit funny...

they have an unbelievable amount of contempt and disdain for the American people and for the rule of law and for justice...

rest easy

Elsie Marie Taylor Knott 🇨🇦

block twenty-four for 150 Canadian Women is called Churn Dash and is dedicated to Elsie Marie Knott / Chief Knott

Melissa's block 24

dianne's block 24

twenty-four weeks done and 126 to go, give or take six

Coffee with Nonna by Vincent Iezzi

signs from today

two gazillion

and THAT is enough for today...

one gazillion...

 okay, that's enough for today...

meanwhile...

eight skeins

 nine skeins

not today...

is there time to add that next set of blocks?

yes...

do i want to try meeting a gazillion more points today?

nope...

toe warmers

two pairs of socks

 + 4 cups of long grain white rice (the cheapest brand - it's not for eating) 

÷ into one cup for each sock 

~ 10 minutes at the sewing machine on zigzag

× 1-2 minutes in the microwave = 

four toe warmers*

*also nice for warming hands or for achy backs or for knotted necks or for crampy baby boxes (not my term for a uterus, but i guess it works)

bits and pieces

 well ... i pressed and trimmed the embroidered blocks for Vintage Tin (aka Roadkill Road), rolled them onto an empty paper towel tube and packed them away with the fat quarter bundle of Inkwell fabric... 

that was ... lemmecheck ... six months ago...

yeah...

i began to have the distinct impression that SOMEONE ) who shall remain anonymous but her initials are MELISSA) was not going to piece the blocks for the rest of the quilt top - two 9 1/2" devil's claw blocks, two 6 1/2" crossroads blocks, eleven 3 1/2" friendship stars, seven 3 1/2" half square triangles and 78 (SEVENTY-EIGHT!!!) 3 1/2" x 6 1/2" flying geese...

seventy-freaking-eight!!!

so ... i came up with the BRILLIANT idea of cutting the pieces and working TOGETHER on the blocks on sundays,  after we made our 150 Canadian Women blocks for the week cuz the iron would already be hot...

yeah, long story short, the TOGETHER part didn't happen -  not even once...

sigh...

all the bits and pieces are built now and assembly has begun...

Marie-Anne Gaboury Lagimodière 🇨🇦

 

block twenty-three for 150 Canadian Women is called Spin Wheel and is dedicated to Marie-Anne Lagimodière

Melissa's block 23

dianne's block 23

twenty-three weeks done and 127 to go, give or take six

Kathleen Creighton Starr Rice 🇨🇦

block twenty-two for 150 Canadian Women is called Contrary Wife and is dedicated to Kathleen Creighton Starr Rice

Melissa's block 22

dianne's block 22

twenty-two weeks done and 128 to go, give or take six 

cold moon

ICE

when your little one hugs you and asks 

how was your day?

what will you say?

well, what WILL you say?

to your kids

to your loved ones

to your neighbors

to your own face in the mirror 

what will you say?

your mask won't hide what you've done - just sayin'

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Amber Balcaen 🇨🇦

 block twenty-one for 150 Canadian Women is called Eccentric Star and is dedicated to Amber Balcaen

Melissa's block 21

dianne's block 21

twenty-one weeks done and 129 to go, give or take six 

ETTTD

i see what you're doing, Thing One  - you've pardoned thieves, fraudsters, drug dealers, felons, ponzi schemers, human traffickers, sex  offenders, and hundreds of insurrectionists ... your policies have tanked our economy, starved our people and ripped away our healthcare ... you've used food as a weapon against our people  ... you've ruined our justice system with your treacherous retribution and you've murdered people on the high seas  ... you've enabled the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people  - Ukrainians, Africans, Israelis and Palestinians, Americans ... you've destroyed countless families ... you've imprisoned, tortured, disappeared thousands upon thousands of people of color ... you've sold out our country for money and for fake gold participation trophies ... you've $h!t on the rule of law ... you've hosted dictators and terrorists and murderers in what is left of the Peoples' House - that you have literally destroyed ... you've ordered our military to commit murder and war crimes ... you've had our soldiers on their hands and knees to roll out the red carpet for a war criminal terrorist who has butchered hundreds of thousands of his own people in meatwave attacks, has stolen thousands of Ukrainian children, and rains terror daily on innocent Ukrainian civilians because he, like you, wants to be an emperor ... you are decaying before our eyes ... you  are incapable of empathy, leadership, common sense or basic human decency ... you blatantly lie, cheat, steal, abuse, spew hatred and fear ... you want to start a war with South and Central America as red meat to distract your Red Hat base from your failed policies, their economic pain and the Epstein files ... you are Russia's useful idiot ... your hatred of women and anyone or anything who calls you on your $h!t is right there on your ugly, nasty, piggy face ... you are stupid ... there is so much blood on your hands - they will never wash clean ... and every minute of every day more and more people despise you...

but times, they are a-changing...

just sayin'

release the files, not the pedophile 

rock on...

the R and the B are for my Nonna (Rosina) and my Grandma (Bessie) ... my ancestors were latecomers to the party 

today we are thankful for the small joys, secure in the knowledge that kindness is free and strong women rock and pumpkin pie is delicious ... happy Thanksgiving 

*****edited to add*****

signs of resistance

(the little picture is the USS Constitution)

nice hat ... gobble gobble 

Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds Seeyle 🇨🇦

 

block twenty for 150 Canadian Women is called Jack and Six and is dedicated to Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds Seelye

Melissa's block 20

dianne's block 20

twenty weeks done and 130 to go, give or take six